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Paradise

(1994)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1994 Booker Prize (shortlist)

Set in an African village, this is a novel about a boy who is taken away at the age of 12 by a moneylender as security against a loan. He is coming of age and learning of his inheritance. It is also the story of the corruption of traditional African patterns by white colonialism.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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